Sun’s Hibernation Approaches, New Era of Harsh Winters Loom, Could 09-10 Be A Taster?

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Friday, September 18, 2009
Sun’s Hibernation Approaches, New Era of Harsh Winters Loom, Could 09-10 Be A Taster?
Guest Post by Mark Vogan

With the sun, the thing that keeps us from looking and feeling like Pluto ready to enter hibernation mode, we must now be prepared for what will be a tough 30 years ahead. Remember those winter days of the 1960s and 70s? Well you better prepare now, for those are days that are fast returning. I never have experienced anything other than modern warming. I am 26 years of age and born in the early 80s, global warming had become a way of life, however for people my age or younger, the winters of 96-97, 02-03 and 08-09 are winters that are warm compared to what’s inevitably coming our way as our sun, that warm star which has brought increasingly balmier winters of the past 30 years, shortened our winter, lenghtened our summer and brought remarkable shorts and t-shirt weather to London in November and in January to New York.